Nigel Mansell

“I was a driver and a racer. The difference between drivers, who can be great World Champions, and racers, who are also World Champions, is that racers don't wait for things to happen: they make things happen.”

“The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.”

“As you get older, you do reflect more. They were great times, but the biggest thing we all had to deal with a lot more disappointment from an engineering point of view, there was not the reliability that there is now.”

“Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.”

“Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.”